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- >I have an Amiga 4000. Many good games turn up on non-dos disks, and I
- >can't install these on my hard drive. Guaranteed I will return them or
- >junk them or find someone who hacked away on it enough to make it
- >HD-installable. Part of the reason the Amiga has failed a lot lately in
- >the games category has
- >been due to the ignorance of large game developers in this respect.
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- >I will not play your game if it won't install on my hard drive. I
- >program in AMOS (look for /game/2play/airTaxi.lha on the Aminet) and my
- >games will always be HD-installable (though it seems not always
- >system-friendly).
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- >In short, you can still protect your work before storing it in an .LHA
- >archive. I assume you want to use a non-dos disk to protect your work,
- >but users will not be so accepting of your game unless it installs.
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- >You should ask on the amos-list for ways to protect your work, rather
- >than insulting other Amiga users.
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- >One last thing: large game developers use non-dos disks and other disk
- >corruption schemes to protect against illegal duplication and to protect
- >their work. I can guarantee to you that the hundreds of groups of
- >software pirates in the Amiga community will only be slightly delayed in
- >altering commercial software to be more easily distributed when these
- >techniques are used. And this usually happens before the game is even
- >released to the masses.
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- >Does anyone else share these views?
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- Yep, Spot on, but programs that also annoy me enough to remove them from my HD
- are those that don't let me QUIT back to Workbench or whatever without
- rebooting. Unfortunately many Amos programs suffer from this problem.
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- Nick (91211448@Brookes.Ac.Uk)
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